Supplemental Material for Chapter 20 Location, Location, Location! Analyzing Residential Development in Environmentally-Fragile Areas This chapter is published as: Morin EA Location, Location, Location! Analyzing Residential Development in Environmentally-Fragile Areas. In: Byrne L (ed) Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Springer, New York. DOI / _20 Erica A. Morin Department of History, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA USA This file contains the following supplemental material:  C: Presentation Slides This chapter also has the following supplemental material, available on the chapter’s website:  A: Instructor’s Guide Materials  B: Examples of towns in environmentally-fragile areas  D: In-Class Activity Worksheet  E: Diagram of Brainstorming Activity

Note to instructors: Due to copyright issues, images are not reproduced on many slides. Suggested images to add are indicated with links to online content. Sources for images from the creative commons are provided in the notes area underneath the slides and in a bibliography on the last slide.

What are the steps involved in building a house? Image suggestion Search: “home construction clip art” Ex: construction-clipart-house-under-construction-clip- art.gifhttp://images.clipartpanda.com/house- construction-clipart-house-under-construction-clip- art.gif

This slide is for a youtube video entitled “Modern Home Construction Technique” available at this link (accessed February 12, 2016): Instructors may wish to embed this video into the slide through the Powerpoint macro function or by downloading and then inserting it. If the video is removed from the link, please contact the author or editor to obtain the video

What environmental factors should be considered when building a house? Image suggestions Search: “home construction collage” Ex: 14_Construction_Photos.jpg 14_Construction_Photos.jpg

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Septic tanks and ground water

What are the environmental considerations of residential development?

Loss of open space

Loss of farmland

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Why do wetlands matter? Image suggestion Search: “how do wetlands work” Ex:

Hillsides and slopes Image suggestions Search: “homes and hillsides” and “house built on hills/slope” Ex: closeup1.jpg?w=300&h=173 closeup1.jpg?w=300&h= Puaq6Vf_iE5PzkMRanUXCjmGv-MKY-j3xoOej\

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Landslides

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Floodplains Image suggestion Search: “floodplain diagram” “floodplain before and after” or “floodplain normal” Ex.

Floodplains

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Effective use of floodplain Trinity River Corridor, Dallas, TX Image suggestions Search: “Trinity River Corridor Project” or “Trinity River Dallas” or “Trinity River flood or flooding” Ex. rcp-dallas.jpg content/uploads/2011/06/trinity-bridge- and-skyline1.jpg /1eae765af80f887f83bc0becf3b535f2cca3 8e12/c= &r=x404&c=534x401/local/- /media/2015/05/29/WFAA/WFAA/ trinity.JPG

Instructions: Imagine you are a team of residential housing developers and contractors. Your job is to evaluate potential construction sites and determine their suitability for residential development. You must consider a wide range of environmental factors, including groundwater availability/excess, slope/terrain, soil composition, bedrock, vegetation, and natural hazards, especially potential natural disasters in the given region. Use your personal electronic devices to research your group’s town or city and answer the questions below. Based on your findings, your group must decide why your location is well-suited or ill-suited for a housing development.

Beaufort, NC.

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Mears, MI.

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La Conchita, CA.

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Homestead, FL.

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Yerington, NV.

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Cascade, CO.

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Cairo, IL.

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Greensburg, KS.

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Hollister, CA.

Mead, CO.

Image bibliography Slide 7 USGS. (2006) Septic tank. Accessed 5 August 2015 Tilley, E., Ulrich, L., Lüthi, C., Reymond, Ph., and Zurbrügg, C. (2014) Schematic of septic tank. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 9 Betts, L. (2011) Urban sprawl, Las Vegas, Clark County, NV. NRCSNV00019_-_Nevada_%285521%29%28NRCS_Photo_Gallery%29.tif. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 10 Nichols, Bob. (2011) Agriculture and homeowners are neighbors in PA. wiki/ File:NRCSPA00004_-_Pennsylvania_%285897%29%28NRCS_Photo_Gallery%29.tif. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 11 Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. (2011) Results of the FHWA Domestic Scan of Successful Wetland Mitigation Programs. ecosystems/scanrpt/images/mnhousebywetland.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 16 Ingolfson. (2007) Retaining wall type function. Wall_Type_Function.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Marleyguy1. (2008) Precast concrete retaining wall. Precastconcreteretainingwall-2.tif. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 17 Thatotherperson. (2014) House destroyed by landlslide. House_destroyed_by_landslide.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 18 O’Quin, C. (2008) Road along U.S. border. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 19 Arizona Department of Transportation. (2014) State Route 89A switchbacks to close for up to five weeks after Memorial Day. Accessed 5 August 2015 Selvage, M. (2014) The Salang Pass. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 20 Schuster, R.L. (1983) Thistle landslide. Thistlelandslideusgs.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 22 Case. D. (2011) Forge Hill Road bridge washout after Hurricane Irene, New Windsor, NY. Accessed 5 August 2015 Case. D. (2011) Deep gorge created in road after Hurricane Irene flooding, Oliverea, NY. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 24 Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. (2013) Floodplain protection regulations. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slides (odd numbers) Kaboom 88. (2007). Blank map of the states. map_borders.svg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 30 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2011) Event Reviews, Hurricane Irene. EventReviews/ / _files/image010.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 34 Gallessich, G. (2005) La Conchita slide part of much larger landslide. archived/2005/December5/Images/3_slide.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 44 Henshall, G. (2007) Greensburg Kansas tornado. Accessed 5 August 2015 National Weather Service – Goodland. (2008) A tornado in Kansas on May 22, Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 46 USGS. San Andreas Fault Index Map. 5/5c/San_Andreas_Fault_Index_Map.jpg. Accessed 5 August 2015 Wilshire, H.G. (1989) Collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland, from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Accessed 5 August 2015 USGS. (1989) Collapsed Cyprus Street Viaduct. Accessed 5 August 2015 Slide 48 Mikenorton. (2013) Hydro frac 2. Accessed 5 August 2015